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Encore: Llama at a Wedding
“What are the dimensions of an adult llama?” asked a Redditor called Mrs. Sam Handwich in the "No Stupid Questions" community. "I've been hired to ma…
3 years, 6 months ago
Encore: Unsent Letters
The unsent letter. We all have one, half-composed in our heads or fully-formed as an email draft. Whatever form these letters take, they go unsent be…
3 years, 6 months ago
Bonus: The ‘Stinetingler’ himself
Team Endless Thread is here with your holiday bonus — a bonus episode, that is! If you heard our most recent episode on 'Goosebumps The Musical,' you…
3 years, 6 months ago
Listener beware...
When producer Quincy Walters came to an Endless Thread episode ideas meeting talking about 'Goosebumps The Musical,' Amory had two questions: 1) “Tha…
3 years, 6 months ago
Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part VI: Something Like Us
Can a machine think like a human? Can it be conscious? For decades the answer was clear: nope. But artificial intelligence today is challenging that …
3 years, 6 months ago
Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part V: Dating Bots
If you've ever used a dating app, chances are you've encountered a bot, most likely a fake account or a scammer. But this week on Endless Thread, we …
3 years, 7 months ago
Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part IV: Tay
Next up in our bots series, we bring you a cautionary tale about Tay, a Microsoft chatbot that has lived on in infamy. Tay was originially modeled to…
3 years, 7 months ago
Encore: Shrinkflation
From the supermarket to the housing market, products are getting smaller but prices are not. Why is this happening? And can it be stopped before the …
3 years, 7 months ago
Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part III: Life, death and AI
Next up in our bots series, we explore a growing field of AI: immortalizing the dead through predictive AI text. We talk to two individuals who utili…
3 years, 7 months ago
Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part II: Political Bots
Next in our series Good Bot, Bad Bot: the possibilities of bots being used in governments around the world. How can bots increase transparency and sh…
3 years, 8 months ago